- Qaddafi: Our Mortal Enemy. Yeah, I guess he must have been, given the company he kept.
- Ooooh. What would you do?
- How come with them it’s always “a training issue”? That is, when it’s not a non-disclosable “personnel matter”? Or, (via Joel and Carl) the result of stress? I dunno about you, but I know lots of people with PTSD who don’t routinely threaten to assassinate their fellow humans. (Carl also asks an excellent question about cops and military service here.)
- The freelance revolution. This is either an attempt to put lipstick on the unemployment pig or it’s the MSM discovering 20 years late that the workplace is changing. Love this line: “Washington can’t fix what it can’t count.” Yeah. 🙂 (The author never says why she believe freelancers need to be “fixed”; but the IRS has been trying to neuter us for decades.)
- Best-ever rant on the Gibson guitar raid.
- Peter Schiff has the best economic take on the Gibson fiasco, among other job-killers.
- And speaking of federal job killing: here and here. Hm. Maybe all these efforts to destroy business ought to be unified under a Department of Homeland Insecurity. A Department of Regulations and Raids? A War on Jobs? Well, maybe not the latter. Given the “success” of all the other “Wars On,” a War on Jobs might result in an unprecedented employment boom — which is clearly not that rulers of regulatory fiefdoms want.
About the found money- not sure what I’d do, but I can guarantee one thing I wouldn’t do: call the cops.
Last week a woman in town (actually “the other town” across the state line) called the cops just after midnight to report that she thought someone was breaking into her house. The cop showed up and shot her. He was a bad shot, so she survived with a damaged shoulder or arm. I wonder if she learned a lesson. There is no situation so bad it can’t be made immeasurably worse by adding a cop.
If .gov were serious about stimulating the economy they would, at the least, eliminate the self employment tax. For those who don’t know – in addition to paying your income tax, social security tax, local business tax, property tax and sales tax they hit you with an additional 10% tax for the privilege of working for your self.
I’m reading L. Neil Smith’s “Probability Broach” and getting more depressed with each page. I don’t see any way out of this pit we’ve dug for ourselves.
Man…..where do I start… Ok…the cops….I plain don’t trust any of them…and that includes some of my family. About the economy..and the reason for it. It all centers around Washington DC. Yeah, the fed is ultimately to blame….but the PTB allowed it if not in fact aided it. As for there being two political parties…Ha! Don’t bet on it. They are so deep in BS that it isn’t funny. There is only one party. “Course they will never admit it. As for the Pres…that is the biggest joke. You think he really cares about this country??? All he cares about is getting money in his pocket from Soros…that and his Islamic buddies.
Those working in the government have always been jealous of those who have real jobs that they bust their butts working to keep and EARN their income. That’s why they tack on the extra taxes, to make them look foolish in having to pay the extra tax.
I’d be doing the same thing if I could find a way.
I like this quote from one of the links above.
“If the owner—a legitimate one—is not found police will assist Sabaj in determining if he can keep the cash.”
Yeah, right. If there aren’t people crawling out of the woodworks for the cash, the cops themselves will find a way to keep the cash themselves. Maybe charging the cash with a crime.
As for me, since I have a job, it’d go toward my paying down my mortgage.
LibertyNews, are you talking about the extra share of SS the self-employed pay — the “employer’s half”? Or something different?
Paying both halves of SS is certainly a serious wallop. About 8.65 percent for that second half, if I recall correctly.
Jim B — ain’t that the truth. You can be 100 percent sure that anybody who “crawls out of the woodwork” to claim the cash will ipso facto be considered a criminal, and in that case, the money will automatically be forfeit to the badge-wearing thieves.
“A War on Jobs?”
Oh, so that’s why he recently stepped down as CEO of Apple Co.?
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I have been self employed for 7, going on 8 years now and I can say with confidence that a team of wild horses won’t drag me back to a cubicle and 9-5 hours ever again. To me this is one of the key ways to build personal freedom into your life, why would any freedom loving, liberty oriented person give that up?
Regarding the SS tax, to avoid simply incorporate and pay yourself a salary, which you will pay both pieces of SS tax on, but make the salary very small. The rest of the income should be paid to yourself as a “dividend” from the corporation. No SS tax due on this, at least not yet. I am sure when Congress Critters catch on they will change this. There are lots of other great techniques a good CPA can help you with as well.
Qaddafi: A lap dog who got off his leash. Saddam, Noriega, etc…